Being an alcoholic, the sultan made his first stop at a tavern which, according to eighteenth-century English traveler John Ellis, he found full of “people getting drunk and singing songs of love.” His next stop was one of Istanbul's ...
"Disdaining forbidden borders and dangerous domains, he researches cults in Ethiopia that used coffee as a kind of sacrament, sails a dhow along the same lanes that carried the first...
In this captivating book, Stewart Lee Allen treks three-quarters of the way around the world on a caffeinated quest to answer these profound questions: Did the advent of coffee give birth to an enlightened western civilization?
A tale of obsession and twisted revenge.
1216. England has been invaded.